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This is another reason why my interest shifted to I2P over Tor. Tor is designed more as a proxy to the cleaner, but I2P is focused on internal services, this i
by ravenstine 5y ago
This is another reason why my interest shifted to I2P over Tor.
Tor is designed more as a proxy to the cleaner, but I2P is focused on internal services, this it would take extra steps to use it for DOS attacks against plain ok websites. If you want to be available to I2P users, you basically opt-in to the network, as opposed to Tor's effectively opt-out approach. I2Ps design is supposedly better at dealing with DDOS attacks, but I don't exactly know the specifics of how that is.
Overall, I think Tor will decline in usage over the next decade because it's too easy to use it nefariously and more institutions will find ways to block it.
- Trockiy 5y agoThere are onion sites in Tor. And no scalability issues of i2p (mentioned in their FAQ).
- ravenstine 5y agoOnion sites are pretty secondary. Very few people using Tor know how to set them up or are even acutely aware of their existence. In I2P there is no concept of an exit node; that would only be unofficially possible by creating an eepsite that forwards connections from the clearnet. This is why I2P is overall a better model because it is a totally opt-in network but with no formal exit node distinction. I haven't read about I2Ps scaling issues in a while, but I'm pretty sure that the I2P network design is better at handling DDOS.
- rany_ 5y ago> more institutions will find ways to block it You could detect and block Tor traffic by blocking the exit node IPs. They provide an API that lets you get all exit node IPs so that you could block them: https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist They are putting no effort in making this hard for site admins.